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One more menu from November, 1947 shows Salt Lake City’s Temple Square on the cover. The back cover gushes about Brigham Young’s wisdom and foresight in leading the Latter Day Saints to Salt Lake a century before the menu was … Continue reading →

At 12,965 feet (the menu says 12,863 but the estimates must have been revised), Mount Sopris is one of Colorado’s shorter mountains. I may be wrong, but I don’t think it was visible from any Rio Grande train. Click image … Continue reading →

Ruby Canyon isn’t as spectacular as Glenwood, Gore, and some of the other canyons followed by the Rio Grande Railroad, but it is the first interesting scenery eastbound passengers see on entering Colorado. The back of this menu has lengthy … Continue reading →

In the late nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, the Rio Grande heavily advertised the “Narrow Gauge Circle,” (though by 1915 parts were standard gauge). This consisted of a loop starting in Pueblo, going south to Alamosa and … Continue reading →

Although the Rio Grande Zephyr was a quality operation, as seen yesterday the railroad did not bother to adorn its menus with photos of scenery seen along the way. The same was true with ticket envelopes; while those from the … Continue reading →

For more than a decade after Amtrak took over most passenger trains, the Rio Grande continued to serve passengers dinners in style, with cloth tablecloths (all marked California Zephyr), heavy china (made for the Rio Grande Zephyr, and silverware. This … Continue reading →

Just over a year after Amtrak took over most passenger trains, the Rio Grande offered this menu to passengers on the Rio Grande Zephyr. It has far fewer offerings than yesterday’s 1966 menu, but that’s mainly because this is the … Continue reading →

With the Prospector on top and the California Zephyr along the bottom of this menu card, this could have been used on either train. However, it was probably used on the Prospector as the Cal Zephyr had its own, specially … Continue reading →

This undated brochure gives the address of the Rio Grande’s office building as “Denver 2, Colorado.” That building is in zip code 80202. However, the 1962 timetable listed it as “Denver 17, Colorado,” suggesting that the Post Office changed the … Continue reading →

Long after other railroads had replaced steam with Diesel and wooden coaches with steel, the Rio Grande continued to operate the Silverton as a tourist train. The silver ink on the cover of this brochure, which is both an advertisement … Continue reading →

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